H. Robert Horvitz

Howard Robert Horvitz (8 May 1947-) was an American biologist who was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for researching the C. elegans nematode worm.

Biography
Howard Robert Horvitz was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1947, and he worked for IBM before earning a biology PhD from Harvard in 1974; one of his instructors was James Watson. In 1978, he became a professor at MIT, teaching biology there. He researched cell lineage there, working with Sydney Brenner and John Sulston to research C. elegans nematodes; they were awarded in 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.